Pre-teen band booted from bar now booked to play Music Circus

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Jun 29, 2009 at 12:01 AMJun 29, 2009 at 5:10 AM

Being banned in Weymouth may be the best thing that ever happened to a band from Weymouth. The South Shore Music Circus in Cohasset is expected to announce on Monday that the Barroom Heroes, a quartet of four pre-teens, will open for kid star Drake Bell on July 16.

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Being banned in Weymouth may be the best thing that ever happened to a band from Weymouth.

The South Shore Music Circus in Cohasset is expected to announce Monday that the Barroom Heroes, a quartet of four pre-teens, will open for kid star Drake Bell on July 16.

Music Circus GM Vince Longo said this weekend he went to see the kids perform last week at Hajjar's in Weymouth. He was so impressed he talked to their parents and booked them for next month's show.

The Barroom Heroes consists of brothers Jake and Nick Bell, 11 and 10, and Sam Wells, 9, all of Weymouth, and Sam Attridge, 12, of Hingham.

They played at Basta Bar in Weymouth on June 24, two weeks after a planned show was canceled by police on the grounds that it was illegal for children to be in a bar. The show was rescheduled after the bar decided not to serve drinks during the set.

The publicity over the controversay also gave the four young musicians a backstage pass to meet their idols, the Dropkick Murphys, during a show at the Comcast Center in Mansfield on June 16.

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